V. THE WORKER
The worker (including the farm labourer) as a rule owns no land or
farm implements, though some do own a very small amount of land and very few
farm implements. Workers make their living wholly or mainly by selling their
labour power.
NOTES
1. There were various forms of public land in China's rural
areas--land owned by the township or district government, by the ancestral
temple of a clan, by a Buddhist or Taoist temple, a Catholic church or a
mosque, or land whose income was used for public welfare purposes such as
famine relief, or the building and maintenance of bridges and roads, or for
educational purposes. In practice, most of such land was controlled by the
landlords and rich peasants, and few peasants had any say in its
administration.
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